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Sites of Servitude: Comparative Slavery, Difference, and Belonging in Tunis, 1736-1891
Sites of Servitude: Comparative Slavery, Difference, and Belonging in Tunis, 1736-1891
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211151447
- ISBN
- 9798382785165
- DDC
- 900
- 서명/저자
- Sites of Servitude: Comparative Slavery, Difference, and Belonging in Tunis, 1736-1891
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Harvard University, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 328 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-12, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Lewis, Mary .
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation traces a shift in attitudes about enslaveability in Tunis, from one where European Christians could be enslaved, to one in which Blackness became the principal category justifying servitude. To do so, I compare the socioeconomic trajectories of two groups of enslaved people and their descendants in Tunis. The first group, Ṭabarqin, were individuals presumed to have come to the Tunisian island and trading post, Ṭabarqah, from the northern Mediterranean. The second group, Shuwashin (sing: Shushan) were dark-skinned individuals from the southern regions of Ottoman Tunis, with presumed geographic origins in western and central Africa. In 1741, the Ṭabarqin were enslaved by the Tunisian government and transported to the capital of Tunis. A little over fifty years later, descendants of Ṭabarqin who had been claimed as subjects of Christian kingdoms were captured, enslaved, and conveyed to Tunis. Yet within a relatively quick period of five years, virtually all captives were freed. Why was the enslavement of the Ṭabarqin no longer considered tolerable? I contend that this shift occurred because of a convergence of racial ideologies among African and European elites. By the mid-19th century, the Ṭabarqin had shed the social and material traces of their former servitude through access to European and Tunisian social and legal protection. Meanwhile, the term Shushan shifted from a family name to a primary marker of Blackness and servitude. This change contributed to rendering such individuals as forever foreigners to the region. Ultimately, I show that ideologies of racialization informed social hierarchies, socioeconomic opportunity, and state formation in the northern regions of the African continent decades prior to formal French colonial occupation in 1881.
- 일반주제명
- History
- 일반주제명
- African history
- 일반주제명
- Middle Eastern history
- 일반주제명
- Religion
- 일반주제명
- Sexuality
- 키워드
- Empire
- 키워드
- Gender
- 키워드
- Race formation
- 키워드
- Enslaveability
- 기타저자
- Harvard University History
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-12B.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■650 4▼aMiddle Eastern history
■650 4▼aReligion
■650 4▼aSexuality
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■653 ▼aEmpire
■653 ▼aGender
■653 ▼aRace formation
■653 ▼aEnslaveability
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